Delta: 43 Cultists Arrested As 5 Die In Renew Cult War In Jesse

One source, said the killings was connected to unending rivalry by two cult group ‘but this killing was something else, two of the five people who were killed were vigilante and an Okada rider’.

A resident who preferred anonymity, said “It was becoming a monthly thing. it’s always cult killings. Youths are being killed in their prime and we want action on this” he said in an emotion laden voice.

“One of the victims of the recent killing is a loyalist of a prominent politician from the local government, so, we don’t want to join in their fight,” he added.

“Its a cult related matter, my brother, and we are doing everything to curb it, as I talk to you, security is on ground, and we have restored sanity is in that area,” Delta state Police spokesman, DSP Edafe Bright said earlier, when contacted on phone.

When contacted, the Monarch of Idjerhe kingdom, His Royal Majesty, King Monday Obukowho Whiskey (JP), who spoke in a telephone conversation, said that he had since placed a curse on cultists in his domain, saying those engaging in cultism would continue to suffer calamity.

‘I have since banned cultism in my domain and those still carrying out activities of cultism will suffer. It’s only one community that we have cultists’ unrest and not the entire Idjerhe kingdom. I am speaking from my palace and residents are going about their normal businesses so there is no issue of people fleecing Jesse as being posted on social media’, he said.

He said that one of the youth allegedly sponsoring the cult war has been arrested and transferred to the State Criminal Investigation Department (SCID) of the state Police Command.